Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction, by Mari Lending
Models and casts helped transmit knowledge of building, design and art, says James Stevens Curl
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Imagined Homelands: British Poetry in the Colonies, by Jason R. Rudy
Elleke Boehmer on a refreshing argument that verse allowed its makers and readers in the empire to adjust to new settings while maintaining ties with Britain
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Pantheon: A New History of Roman Religion, by Jörg Rüpke
Candida Moss lauds a volume that charts ‘lived religion’ from the Iron Age to late antiquity
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Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer, by Christopher S. Celenza
There is more to this ‘misunderstood’ man than just the romantic poetry for which he is best known, writes Hetta Howes
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Pensions strike ‘poisons relations’ on UK campuses
USS dispute has also revealed deep divides among vice-chancellors on way forward for the sector, experts say
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Mandatory PhD policies lead to boom in academics with doctorates
Latest Hesa data reveal big jump in staff with a doctorate, although numbers remain static at some institutions
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UCL apologises for media director’s campus meeting rant
Charles Hymas said meeting over new campus was ‘more akin to a Roman amphitheatre where any slave felt to be worshipping the God Mammon was going to be bayed down’
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The week in higher education – 8 March 2018
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Arthur Moss, 1931-2018
Tributes paid to pioneering cardiac researcher
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Career advice: how to transition from PhD student to senior lecturer
Publish before your viva, distinguish opportunities from time-drains and have a strong online profile, says Helen Coleman
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Interview with Elizabeth Kiss
The next warden of Rhodes House on growing up in a family of political refugees and why universities must prepare graduates to be good citizens
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How Democracies Die: What History Tells Us about Our Future, by Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt
Book of the week: Eliane Glaser on how authoritarians get an opening when party elites play with populist fires
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Books editor’s blog: Bridget Jones’ lab diary – v. hormonal today
In Hormonal, Martie Haselton writes in a style that is lively, popular and confessional, but still scientifically rigorous – a bit like chick lit with footnotes
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Sums for spooks: mathematicians grapple with ethics of research funding
Mathematicians – and, indeed, other scholars – who cooperate with intelligence agencies face a moral dilemma knowing that their research could well be applied in unethical ways, says Michael Harris
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What are you reading? – 8 March 2018
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers